Edmund Burke: “Hastings's taking of bribes is not only his own corruption, but the incurable corruption of the whole service.”

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.